Hey pals! It was a good run.
Hi Tumblr. Wow it has been a long time. Iāve had this Tumblr account and blog under many names for over 6 years, joined Tumblr all the way back in 2011. Itās been with me through a large chunk of my adolescent development: high school, coming to terms with and coming out, depression, college applications and admissions, dramatic weight loss and personal growth, fledgeling efforts at dating, longer relationships, almost the entirety of my college career, rough patches, and good times. All of that abstractly chronicled and accompanied by tens of thousands of posts, multitudes of time scrolling, and several phases and themes drawing from humor, politics, social justice, queer culture, aesthetics, fandom, mood journaling, and more. Itās been a lot.
After all this time, development, and growth, itās time for a change. While Iād love nothing more than to quit Tumblr and all social media completely, I think some more gradual or corrective measures are more appropriate, augmenting the way I use Tumblr. Thereās certainly still a place for engaging with and enjoying positive content ā though perhaps less pervasively, less seriously, and with less obstruction to productivity. So, Iām starting fresh. I canāt quite bring myself to purge this account and itās history, nor to go through the labors of removing the old blogs I follow and curating a new set of blogs to follow, so Iāve made a new, fresh account and will be leaving this one as is to catalog what was.
For those of you who have any sort of investment in my blog (wild notion, really), I can now be found at aesethetic.tumblr.com. If youāve just recently followed me, I appreciate it. If youāve followed me throughout the years and lived through it all: sethsthetic, kingdranite, gaycelebi, gaystarmie, bohemianpenguin, and the multitude of other cringeworthy blog names (particularly the āwordy hipster phraseā era) that I cant remember, then I love you greatly and also yikes.
Goodbye, Tumblr 2011-2017. Rest in Pieces and One Singular Yike.
















